Boris Pasternak was born in 1980 to two talented artists. His father, Leonid Pasternak, was a painter and illustrator of Tolstoy's works along with being a professor at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture and his mother, Rosa Kaufman, was a well-known concert pianist. Boris was constantly surrounded by other popular artists, composers, and writers such as Leo Tolstoy. Boris then went on to continue his education about the arts at the University of Moscow where six years later he decided this wasn't what he wanted to do with his life. He then decided to go to the University of Marburg, Germany to study philosophy. Again, four months later, he returned to Russia to devote his life to literature where he went on to become a Nobel winning Russian and Soviet poet. The fact that Boris was constantly pushed to what his parents wanted him to do in regards of being in the art field can relate to Chris. Chris' parents wanted him to be a normal kid, go to college, and participate in normal things, however, that wasn't Chris and that push is the reason he left for Alaska. The same thing happened to Boris; Boris' parents told him to go to the University of Moscow to study music. There he wasted six years of his life and then another four months studying philosophy until finally he does what he really likes to do, which is writing. They both, in the end, did what they wanted to do.
-Colton C